L10N GSoC '07: The notebook

This page was used to facilitate the organization and communication about our Google Summer of Code project "An upstream-friendly l10n Web UI for Fedora". Basically it's a place where we keep stuff. It is now kept for historical purposes.

Goal

The goal of this application is to give Fedora translators the ability to contribute to more projects than before. Fedora's mantra is *upstream upstream upstream, and this applies to translations as well: committing to upstream projects instead of keeping translations downstream to Fedora means that more projects can benefit from the translators' contributions.

This approach is different from others which host the translations and do not automatically contribute them back to upstream, like Ubuntu's Rosetta for example.

Details

First ideas

Investigate WUI for translation statistics and choose one or two

Most prominent one is GNOME's Damned Lies , because it's written in Python, it's featureful enough to accommodate our needs. Needs tweaking to make it project-agnostic (currently it has 'GNOME' hardcoded in many places for example). See links for more of them

Set up a xen machine to play with and a MySQL DB for DL and make DL work with our infrastructure (directory structure, SCMs, systems, web servers)